Let me tell you a story. Not a fictional story but a true story (cross-fingers). Once upon a time a student studying to become an environmental scientist was having a few qualms about what he was being told. He cared passionately about the state of t...

This is my vanity site, so anyone who visits this site, while acknowledging that they are as entitled to their views as I am, must indulge me when I give prominence to what I believe is important to the sport. I am often, I suspect, awry with some of...

Let's make no bones about it, in Simon Cox we may be about to throw the last dice in our dance with the devil. Too many lower case messiahs have come and gone from the B.H.A. without achieving anything more positive than making themselves more wealth...

The Gran Premio del Jockey Club at San Siro is to be the next appearance of Constitution Hill. The Group 2 is on October 25th. I do think they have made a bit of a bollocks of this project. The September Stakes was a mistake, I now believe. In achiev...

At Market Rasen on Saturday, Willie Twiston-Davies vented his spleen on the topic of summer jumping. His view did not exactly mirror my opposition to the current summer jumping programme yet I understood his disquiet. Of course, being a critic of sum...

Of course, Billy Loughnane will not accept he is a certainty to be the new champion jockey. He is too sensible than to assume the crown is his. He might suffer a fall today or tomorrow which puts him on the sidelines until after Champions Day and Ois...